AGOSTINELLO Simone

In Tricase, at the southernmost tip of the province of Lecce, Simone Agostinello works within the perimeter of Terra d'Otranto DOP, one of Puglia's broadest olive oil denominations, with ninety-six municipalities making up its map. His reference is the Ogliarola salentina, a cultivar that finds a precise expression here: extra virgin oils imbued with mineral notes and a distinct vegetal profile—thistle, artichoke, wild chicory—that tell the story of the landscape more than any label. It is the calcareous soils and the light of Salento that shape these oils, where the herbaceous personality and depth do not arise from a repeated formula but from how each vintage reacts to the climate and the land. Within a single denomination, Agostinello concentrates an idea of oil as a direct interpretation of the territory: not a uniform product, but the mutable result of a harvest that changes year by year, faithful to the variety and the place that generate it.

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